Photographed by Mark Seliger
On being strange: "Look,
I don't think that I'm strange, but I know I'm definitely
strange," Pharrell Williams says, crunching a Dorito and considering how
others may view the method to his creative madness. "My process works
for me, and it may seem a little . . . I don't know. I mean, I do weirdo
sh*t like watch
Huckleberry Hound at two in the morning eating Corn Pops, you know what I'm saying?"
Hans Zimmer on Pharrell: "It's the experimentation part that I love about him. I was supposed to help Pharrell on
Despicable Me,
and all I tried to do was stay out of the way of the onslaught of
creativity that was coming from him. Because it's Pharrell, you don't just limit him to music. There's
the fashion thing, the art thing—there's all these other things. All
these polymorphic qualities make it really interesting. That's why I
love Pharrell, because, yes, we will touch on music, but then I've heard
him talk on human rights, I've heard him talk on artists and their role
in the world. Everything is informed by everything else, and that's why
his music's good."
Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter on Pharrell: "Pharrell's an extraordinary, multitalented artist—songwriter, singer,
rapper, producer. He's a great collaborator, because he has a deep
knowledge of all these different roles and what it takes to make a great
song. As a singer, he'll know how to interact with a producer, and
likewise, as a producer, he'll know how to interact and work with
singers. He was always really the only choice in our mind for 'Get
Lucky.' We've known him for a long time, and we've always considered him
as this genuine, timeless entertainer, glamorous and elegant. It's
precisely this timeless elegance that we ultimately wanted to capture on
the record. We were totally in sync—we were just on the same wavelength
all along the ride.
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